The Creative Entrepreneur Podcast

Are you a musician, writer, visual artist, or some other type of creative entrepreneur? If so, this show is for you! Host Bob Baker is on a mission to help creative people of all kinds use their talents and know-how to make a living and make a difference in the world! The podcast features interviews with a wide variety of people either working full-time or making a major impact in their chosen field, as well as helpful advice from Bob, who has been self-employed in the arts for most of his life (as an author, musician, visual artist, actor, and improv comedy instructor).

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If you're like most artists and creative people, you have more promotion ideas than you know what to do with. The trick is taking those random concepts and crafting them into a concrete marketing plan - one you can wrap your brain around and actually act on!

This episode spells out my best advice on creating a marketing plan for your art, music, writing, and more. Use this planning process to craft a solid promotion plan that works for you.

Wanna learn how to vlog like a boss? Not sure what that even means? Have no fear. You'll learn all about it on this episode.

Amy Schmittauer started a YouTube channel in 2009 to vlog (video blog) her life. She discovered she was good at video, and people started asking her how to use video and social media for business purposes.

That inspired Amy to launch her Savvy Sexy Social channel in 2011. Soon after, she quit her corporate day job to become a full-time vlogger and social media consultant. Her channel currently has 54,000+ subscribers and nearly 4 million channel views.

On this episode, she shares her story and offers some great advice on expanding your presence and personal brand online.

Links to stuff mentioned in this episode:

Amy's new book, Vlog Like a Boss: How to Kill It Online with Video Blogging

Jamey Stegmaier may be one of the most successful people I've interviewed. He took a childhood interest and turned it into a thriving, multi-million dollar business. That makes him a guy worth listening to.

His company creates board games for niche audiences. He used Kickstarter to raise a total of $3.2 million over several campaigns for different games, each one raising more money than the previous campaign.

Jamey's business philosophy is based on engagement, interaction and delivering value to his community. His attitude is infectious. You don't have to be a board game creator to benefit immensely from his wisdom. So listen up!

Here's the audio to my most popular YouTube video in recent months. It racking up more than a thousand views in a week. In this short clip I offer an alternative view of celebrity deaths and the widespread notion that "2016 sucked!"

I must have struck a nerve, because the view count keeps rising.

I recorded this the day after George Michael died. After that Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds passed away. Add them to a long list of icons that includes David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Muhammad Ali, George Martin, Alan Rickman, Gene Wilder, Garry Shandling, John Glenn, Florence Henderson, Glenn Frey, and more.

There are many ways to respond to all that happened in 2016. Take a few minutes to listen to this for a different perspective

We live in uncertain times. Lots of friction, dissent and finger-pointing. I don't know about you, but I think music, art, poetry, prose and all forms of creative expression are more important than ever before.

That's one of the reasons I'm on a mission to educate, inspire and empower musicians, writers, artists, and other creative people around the world.